Though my life growing up as a heterosexual, cis-gender white woman in the Midwest is worlds away from that of Juliet Milagros Palante, who describes herself as a “closeted Puerto Rican baby-dyke from the Bronx”(5), I think anyone with a heart and a soul can relate to this coming of age story.  Even more importantly, everyone can learn from it. The year is 2003 and 19-year-old Juliet is about to spend a chunk of her first summer home from college far away from her Bronx […]